cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread Erez D
hey, my NSLU2 just died ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 ) I can replace it with a new one, however i was thinking - it has been long time since nslu2 showed up, and there must be a more powerful device available for a similiar price... I am actually looking for a cheap linux box, with usb2

How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Boris shtrasman
Hi, Yesterday my harddrive had an inconvenient event: when I was using a d-i from testing I accidentally overwritten on of the pv's connected to the lvm. I started to panic and found myself making more damage by running vgreduce --*remove*-*missing* since in one of the rescue files it noted this

Re: cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:30:39AM +0200, Erez D wrote: hey, my NSLU2 just died ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 ) I can replace it with a new one, however i was thinking - it has been long time since nslu2 showed up, and there must be a more powerful device available for a similiar

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: Hi, Yesterday my harddrive had an inconvenient event: when I was using a d-i from testing I accidentally overwritten on of the pv's connected to the lvm. I started to panic and found myself making more damage by running

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Boris shtrasman
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: Hi, Yesterday my harddrive had an inconvenient event: when I was using a d-i from testing I accidentally overwritten on of the pv's

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: Hi, Yesterday my harddrive had an inconvenient event: when I was

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Boris shtrasman
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Boris shtrasman wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:36:33AM +0200,

Re: cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:30:39AM +0200, Erez D wrote: hey, my NSLU2 just died ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 ) I can replace it with a new one, however i was thinking - it has been long time since nslu2 showed up, and there must be a more powerful device available for a similiar

Re: cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread Dov Grobgeld
This guy had bad experince with the GuruPlug: http://1wt.eu/articles/guruplug-slow-heater/ On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 14:03, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: Sheevaplug/GuruPlug. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

[OT] Buying a new computer

2010-10-11 Thread Ori Idan
I would like to buy a new desktop computer. Can someone recommend on what display board and sound board? I don't need heavy graphics, it has to work fine with compiz and be able to play video clips. I do not use it for actually watching movies. Does anyone know of any good computer store in

Re: cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Erez D wrote: I am actually looking for a cheap linux box, with usb2 and lan, which I can install a general purpose linux distribution on (e.g. debian and such. not openwrt which is good for routers, but not for other things like hosting a mail server etc

Re: [OT] Buying a new computer

2010-10-11 Thread Amichai Rotman
There was a company selling computers pre-installed with Linux at the 2008 August Penguin. I can't remember the name. They won't ask you what is Linux... I just bought a computer at a regular neighborhood computer shop, with the following specs: 2GB RAM Gigabyte G41 Motherboard 500GB Hitachi

seeking cross-platform professional backup recommendation

2010-10-11 Thread Ira Abramov
Da subject unraveled: Cross Platform = runs windows, backs up Linux (specifically Debian) Professional = can properly back up and restore AD and Exchange. Seeking = Right now it's ArcServe. Symantec seems cheeper, but it seems like the buzz about the Linux agent is negative. Bacula and AMANDA

Re: seeking cross-platform professional backup recommendation

2010-10-11 Thread Avi Rozen
Ira Abramov wrote: Bacula and AMANDA are probably not options since they won't use shadow copies thus can't back up databases swiftly and restore them partially and intelligently like propriatary tools do. I'm in no position to compare it with other backup solutions, but I do know that

quicker mirror of RHEL images

2010-10-11 Thread Ira Abramov
Need to install RHEL for a client tomorrow and they don't have the media. downloading the eval images is slow. anyone got a local mirror of rhel-AS-64bit-5.4 or 5.5 for me to D/L? Thanks! -- The 13th Apostle Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/

Re: [OT] Buying a new computer

2010-10-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 11, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: I did not have any experience with the Intel graphics cards and their drivers (which are always built-in-on-the-board). Their Linux drivers have been open- source from the start, and Intel also released specifications, but someone told me

Re: quicker mirror of RHEL images

2010-10-11 Thread Evyatar Parker
Torrenthttp://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5474877/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_5.5_Server_for_x86___AMD64_Intel_EM64Tis usually fast. Evyatar Parker On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Ira Abramov lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org wrote: Need to install RHEL for a client tomorrow and they don't have the

Re: cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 10:30 +0200, Erez D wrote: hey, my NSLU2 just died ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 ) I can replace it with a new one, however i was thinking - it has been long time since nslu2 showed up, and there must be a more powerful device available for a similiar

Re: cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 11, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote: Of the top of my head, two options: 1. A dual core ATOM combo box can be found at under 800nis. Add a case, PSU and you can stay under 1100nis. KSP has one for 800 NIS including 1gb RAM, 250gb HD. Ivory's cheapest is 945 NIS, but it has

Re: [OT] Buying a new computer

2010-10-11 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 11 בOctober 2010 18:15:54 geoffrey mendelson wrote: The Intel onboard graphics chipsets are perfectly fine for normal use. They seem to be much better than the other onboard graphics chipsets of 10 years ago. They are not really accelerated graphics devices, if you want

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 11 בOctober 2010 11:50:45 Boris shtrasman wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David Not gparted, gpart: http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary

Re: cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:48:35PM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Oct 11, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote: Of the top of my head, two options: 1. A dual core ATOM combo box can be found at under 800nis. Add a case, PSU and you can stay under 1100nis. KSP has one for 800 NIS